Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite

Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite by rad_gruchalski on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:53PM (#42551682)

Quite an interesting rabbit hole to explore. Apparently OSI holds a US trademark for “Open Source Initiative Approved License”, but no trademark for “open source” by itself.

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Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite by ska on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:19PM (#42551981)

Hardly surprising because the idiomatic usage of "open source" predates OSI.

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Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite by cryptonector on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:21PM (#42552000)

Apparently not by a lot, but it does indeed.

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Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite by mbreese on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:18PM (#42553658)

The term definitely preceded the organization. The term was in use for years before OSI was formed. And OSI was clearly formed in order to provide some clarity to what was meant by “open source”. In other words, if there was no ambiguity in the phrase “open source”, OSI would never have been created.

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Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite by cryptonector on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:52PM (#42554446)

And the best way to handle this ambiguity is to use "Open Source" when referring to OSI's definition, and "open source" when referring to the colloquial and ill-defined form.

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